Fremantle’s family feud

There are always winners and losers in the ratings race. But Dr Mumbo predicts there to be one big winner tomorrow night. Production company FremantleMedia has three shows up against each other – at the same time.

I note the extensive, and frankly, navel-gazing argument (http://mumbrella.com.au/cuttin.....ing-103756) around Paul Cotton’s intelligent piece on the ability of the technoscienti to get exactly the light entertainment they feel like at any given time. Scott Rhodie has a US iTunes account, I use cross-border proxies like unblock-us.com, others may employ more liberal methods to torrent what they’re after.

In the meantime we get these expensive, moronic “reality” shows tht insult and demean both the viewer and the participant, all in the name of entertainment.

At home we discuss what we’d like to see over dinner, and I dig out permissible ways of seeing them, usually with the adblocker on my browser turned on.